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[Igor Plyatov <plyatov@...>]

Hello Jean-Pierre!

One man from [kicad-users] write this:

> I am unsure where "end-users" are supposed to obtain their KiCAD binaries
> from:
>
> 1. On the official website 
> (http://www.lis.inpg.fr/realise_au_lis/kicad/), the
> latest version is 2007-11-29.
>
> 2. In the Wiki (http://kicad.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Download), 
> it sais
> to obtain binaries/sources from sf. Here, there are numerous versions, 
> which
> seem like "end-user" versions:
> - A Windows stable (?) binary tagged 0.9.0.2 from 2008-01-17
> - A source distribution (for generic unix end-users) tagged r738 from
> 2008-02-07
> - The svn snapshots (which I don't consider as being intended for 
> end-users).
>
> 3. In addition to this, there are distribution-specific packages for 
> debian,
> gentoo, ubuntu (which doesn't cause additional confusion, because 
> there are
> usually distro-specific packages for any software).
>
> This is a mess (esp. items 1+2), so could someone please straighten 
> this out?
> I think there should be at least "official" source code releases, tagged
> non-ambigously, intended for end-use. From these, binaries should be
> generated with the corresponding tag.
>
> Also, the official site and the wiki/community should get in sync 
> regarding
> the distribution and naming policy.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Jonas

Jean-Pierre, can you please, at least, remove the old download links 
from sites
http://iut-tice.ujf-grenoble.fr/kicad/
http://www.gipsa-lab.inpg.fr/realise_au_lis/kicad/
http://www.lis.inpg.fr/realise_au_lis/kicad/
from you homepages and add only a one link to the new download page
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=145591
?

The Yahoo translation group doesn't exists anymore and link to it must 
be deleted.
The links to the "news-changelog" and "install" is outdated and better 
to remove it:

Another problem is a non visibility of link to the Wiki.
To many sites confuse users.

May be better to replace detailed information about KiCad from homepages 
by links to the Wiki and leave info only about author?
At wiki, you can write all what you want about KiCad.
--
Igor Plyatov